Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirty Missions. Under a host of different names and forged passports, he was sent from one European country to another and ordered to use his actor's skill to pass himself off as a native. In 1943, by his own account, he directed the assassination of German Gauleiter Wilhelm Kube in Minsk. After a hasty cram course in German, he was planted in a camp for German P.W.s. In 1947, he was granted Rumanian citizenship under the name Stanislaw Lewandowski. But for all his success and all his skill, Khokhlov was far from happy as an undercover agent...
Realm of Light. The retrospective show, covering 27 years of Sculptress Hepworth's work, provoked some murmurs of dismay from the critics. The Manchester Guardian complained that her carvings were "cold austerities [which do] not rouse any emotion much stronger than deep respect." But the Observer hailed the skill with which "she contrives to impart [life] to her obdurate materials." One thing that the show demonstrated clearly was that she has moved sharply away from her early preoccupation with natural forms toward a colder, more mathematical expression of idea and feeling. It also showed her close artistic affinity with...
...Heather Marris Murray, daughter of a Scottish emigrant father and a South African mother, was born in Pretoria. An Oxford scholarship took her to England, where she worked as a free-lance journalist throughout World War II. The Fire-Raisers is her first novel but is written with a skill and confidence that make it close to the most impressive story yet about the South Africa of Malanism and apartheid...
Last week the U.S. Senate showed rare skill at sleight of hand. In one and the same motion, it passed the Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood bill by an impressive 57-to-28 vote and killed the chances of both territories for this year. Reason: the bill, as many of the Senators were fully aware, cannot get through the House...
During her 15-year-long parliamentary career, peppery Laborite Edith Summer-skill, doughty feminist and onetime Minister of National Insurance, has outraged many a British male by views that ranged from ringing denunciations of bacon & eggs for breakfast to a demand for a law requiring all men to tell their wives how much money they earn. Four years ago, when every British man worthy of his gender stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly...